tie down

英 [taɪ daʊn]

美 [taɪ daʊn]

限制; 束缚; 牵制

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 限制;束缚;牵制
  A person or thing thattiesyoudownrestricts your freedom in some way.
  1. We'd agreed from the beginning not to tie each other down...
     我们一开始就说好了不会互相束缚。
  2. The reason he didn't have a family was that he didn't want to be tied down.
     他没有成家的理由是不想被捆住手脚。

英英释义

verb

• restrain from independence by an obligation
  1. He was tied down by his work
• secure with or as if with ropes
  1. tie down the prisoners
  2. tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed
  Synonym:tie upbindtruss

双语例句

• Belay-Usually means to tie something down but pirates used it to prevent someone to do something.
  Belay-通常的意思是把什么东西捆起来，不过海盗们用来阻止某人做某事。
• In rich countries that threatens to tie down companies and give ailing housing markets a kicking.
  在发达国家，这可能会拖累公司业绩，并对已经轰然倒地的房地产市场再补上一脚。
• The reason he didn't have a family was that he didn't want to be tied down.
  他没有成家的理由是不想被捆住手脚。
• She doesn't want children because she says they tie you down.
  她不想要孩子，因为她说孩子会使你受到束缚。
• Your fickleness will however entice a host of unusual suitors eager to tie you down.
  然而正是你的这种变化无常，却深深地诱惑着一群渴望牢牢套住你的追求者。
• The output can be more specific than just specifying the analog pin number, but the generic number allows flexibility because it does not tie down any one pin to any one job.
  输出也可能比仅指定模拟管脚编号更为具体，但是本机编号灵活性更好，因为它不会将任何一个管脚束缚到某一项作业上。
• Tie down the foam and form the head of the cricket
  把泡沫绑起形成蟋蟀的头部
• I can't tie them down to a fixed estimate of what it is likely to cost.
  因定预算可能会花费多少，我不能用这来限制他们。
• The blues are keen to tie down their star midfielder to a new long-term contract to ward off potential suitors of the England international.
  蓝军希望用一份新的长期合同留住他们的明星中场，并避免那些对这位英格兰国脚有所觊觎的追求者。
• But Google is not a state-owned utility and Europe should not allow its Lilliputians to tie down Gulliver just because he is bigger than them.
  但谷歌也并非一家国有公用事业公司，欧洲不应仅仅因为巨人的个子远远大于小人，就允许小人捆住巨人。